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Axcient x360Recover vs Azure Site Recovery comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

Axcient x360Recover
Ranking in Disaster Recovery as a Service
11th
Average Rating
9.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Azure Site Recovery
Ranking in Disaster Recovery as a Service
2nd
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
23
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2025, in the Disaster Recovery as a Service category, the mindshare of Axcient x360Recover is 1.1%, up from 0.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Azure Site Recovery is 23.5%, down from 25.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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reviewer1267455 - PeerSpot reviewer
State-of-the-art disaster recovery
One of the areas that I would absolutely say that they should improve, is the recovery from the backup when you're running in a failover mode. In other words, if I have to bring the server online on the appliance (so I'm running on the backup image), there should be a way for me to replicate back to or restore back to the hardware or the original source, and then, in the end, you would do a Delta sync and switch over. As of today, I have to shut everything down and the entire resource has to be offline while I'm doing the recovery. So having the ability to kind of recover while running would be a great feature to have. Also, when you failover to the appliance, it doesn't retain the IP information. I have to go in and update the IP information for each of the boxes that I have to fill up. If you're only doing one or two, it's not really a big deal, but if you had to failover, for example, 10-12 boxes because an entire EM infrastructure went down hardware-wise for some reason, you have to know all those IPs and go in and set them up and restart them — that can take a little bit of time. So retaining the IP information would be great.
RituparnaBhattacharya - PeerSpot reviewer
The time-saving aspects allow us to write PowerShell scripts to automate failover processes
First of all, we initially faced a challenge as Azure Site Recovery was not supporting shared disk options on SQL clusters with VMs, which are important for a Windows cluster mode. Additionally, the setup is quite easy, only requiring the creation of a vault. Its time-saving aspects allow us to write PowerShell scripts to automate failover processes.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"It's super stable. We really like it."
"The setup is quite easy, just requiring the creation of a vault."
"Azure Site Recovery allows my company to save around 30 percent of the time on every VM that we need to back up and restore."
"We use the solution across hospitality and healthcare domains. We use it for custom development. It helps us develop a seamless omnichannel for the healthcare industry."
"It is a very stable product and very scalable."
"They're moving a lot of their workload to cloud and aiming for a seamlessly integrated product."
"Azure Site Recovery helps to save costs."
"Azure Site Recovery is obviously a time-saving solution, and I can write PowerShell scripts to automate failover on or off processes."
"Our primary use case is for disaster recovery and business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR)."
 

Cons

"As of today, I have to shut everything down and the entire resource has to be offline while I'm doing the recovery. So having the ability to kind of recover while running would be a great feature to have."
"Currently, Azure Site Recovery does not support shared disk options. Moreover, it does not support services like AppConfig or App Services."
"The pricing predictability and clarity around the final cost of the plan of this solution could be improved."
"The immutable backup could be better."
"Could have more integration with other platforms."
"It is for site-to-site replication. When something goes wrong on your site, you only get 15 minutes before it also goes wrong on your replicated site. There should be some way to be able to say that we want to restore it, but we want to restore it to the version from yesterday. It should support versioning. I would also like to see real-time scanning for advanced threat protection, more straightforward billing, and quicker turnaround on the tech support."
"The support team took a lot of time to respond and was not very professional."
"The product's performance is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"In the newest version of Azure Site Recovery, the configuration was a little more complex, so this is an area for improvement."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"I believe that (if I'm not mistaken), there are a couple of different pricing models."
"It should have more straightforward billing. The billing was what got funky. It was really cheap. We would pay based on the usage. We paid around $225 a month for site-to-site replication."
"The tool's licensing is yearly and not expensive."
"Azure Site Recovery is a very reasonably priced product."
"Azure Site Recovery is affordable."
"I'm not sure about the Azure Site Recovery pricing, but my organization gets monthly bills from providers."
"They have a license to pay."
"Azure Site Recovery is neither very expensive nor very cheap."
"The tool is expensive. What is expensive to me might not be expensive to you. As I mentioned, we seek ways to reduce our costs. If the price goes down, that would be great. I rate the tool's pricing a six out of ten."
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What do you like most about Azure Site Recovery?
Azure Site Recovery allows my company to save around 30 percent of the time on every VM that we need to back up and restore.
What needs improvement with Azure Site Recovery?
Currently, Azure Site Recovery does not support shared disk options. Moreover, it does not support services like AppConfig or App Services. Integrating these services would make the solution more a...
 

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Sample Customers

Ford Bacon & Davis, Torrance Casting, Northeast Valley Health Corporation, Bartlett Cocke General Contractors, Bruno Gerbino and Soriano, IronEdge Group, The Pennington School, NSK, Datasafe, InPursuit Solutions, Borough of West Chester
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